The theatrical version of ‘Fariña’, Nacho Carretero’s novel about drug trafficking in the Rías Baixas, arrives this Saturday at Romea de Murcia
The successful novel by Nacho Carretero ‘Fariña’, successfully taken to audiovisuals –converted into a series for digital platforms–, now reaches the stage. The Romea Theater of Murcia hosts this Friday ‘Fariña’, the adaptation of the book on the history of drug trafficking in Galicia in the last decades of the last century.
‘Fariña’
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When
Saturday, at 8:00 p.m. -
Where
Romea Theater. Murcia. -
How many
€ 18, 22 and 25.
Directed by Tito Asorey, ‘Fariña’ has Sergio Zearreta, Marta Lado, César Goldi, Oswaldo Digón and Graciela Carlo in its cast. Actors who enter and leave the scene on several occasions to play dozens of characters between familiar situations such as a corrupt mayor willing to finance a festival, or boys and neighbors of the towns talking, buying, consuming and handling the famous Winston of bats with ease. – Illegal tobacco. Because ‘Fariña’ gives details, according to the creators of the montage, about “how it was possible that while a generation of boys and girls lost their lives in the drug labyrinth, a series of people saw their economic power grow exponentially through of an illicit activity such as drug trafficking, using for this purpose the already established tobacco trafficking routes ”.
As the performance progresses, the jump to drug trafficking occurs on stage with the same ease with which it took place in reality. Suddenly, on stage, you can hear a Colombian and Moroccan accent, percussion rhythms and songs. In addition, jokes and bravado are heard as drugs take over. Again, following the steps of reality, tragedy appears. In the form of mothers, sunken boys and, finally, police operations.
For historical memory
A play with which Nacho Carretero intended to tell the story “in a way that only the theater allows” and “to do something great, something that those who witness it will not forget. With comedy, with verbena, party and music. With tears, reality and proximity. Also with rigor and memory ». Precisely one of the objectives of the show is to fight against forgetfulness and make present among the citizens a part of the history of Galicia so close in time and even the appearance of ‘Fariña’ forgotten, concealed or unknown by many. For this reason, spectators are summoned to the theater “to reconstruct what happened in Galicia using the contemporary keys of document theater, using direct testimonies from those involved and fictionalized, dramatized contributions for its structure.” This is how a show with depth and visual power is shaped.
José L. Prieto is in charge of the dramaturgy of this adaptation, a montage that premiered in October 2019 and that this weekend will be able to be enjoyed for the first time in the Region of Murcia. The playwright is the author of more than eighty theatrical texts, most of them staged by more than twenty professional companies from inside and outside Galicia. In addition, he has directed more than thirty professional shows. The creator combines his activity as author and theater director with work as a scriptwriter in programs and series on Galician television.
For his part, Tito Asorey, director of the assembly, has been responsible for more than twenty-five shows performed with all kinds of groups, both professional and community in nature, and has been linked to the National Classical Theater Company as an assistant director and pedagogical coordinator. .
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